The April employment numbers have been tabulated by Statistics Canada and reveal the following:

• Employment increased by 109,000 in April, the largest monthly gain in percentage terms since August 2002. The unemployment rate edged down 0.1 percentage points in April to 8.1%, as more people participated in the labour market
• The employment increase in April brings total gains since the start of the upward trend in July 2009 to 285,000.
• Employment growth in April was in both part-time (+65,000) and full-time (+44,000) work. Since July 2009, growth has been concentrated in full-time work.
• All of April's increase was among employees in the private sector.
• Employment grew in all provinces in April, with the largest increases in Ontario, Quebec, BC, Alberta and Manitoba
• The largest increases in April were in retail and wholesale trade (+32,000); business, building and other support services (+31,000); construction (+24,000); and information, culture and recreation (+20,000).
• The industries with notable losses in April were manufacturing (-21,000) and agriculture (-10,000).
• In BC, employment gains of 13,000 in April pushed the unemployment rate down 0.6 percentage points to 7.3%. Since July 2009, employment in the province has risen by 55,000 (+2.4%). 

You can find the Labour Force Survey here.